Grove-care costs for interior...

-- CITRUS PRODUCTION.

September 5, 1988|By Jerry Jackson of the Sentinel staff

-- CITRUS PRODUCTION. Grove-care costs for interior Central Florida counties have increased by about 7 percent since last year, according to a recent report by Ronald P. Muraro, economist with the Citrus Research and Education Center at Lake Alfred. For non-irrigated processed fruit production, the costs per acre increased from $526 to $564, or 7.2 percent; for irrigated processed fruit production, costs increased from $647 to $689, or 6.5 percent; and for irrigated fresh fruit, costs rose from $700 to $748. Production costs include such items as discing, mowing, topping, fertilizing, spraying and general grove work.